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C. W. SALADEE. Side-Bar Wagon.

No. 226,424. Patented April 13.1880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

SIDE-BAR WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,424, dated April13, 1880.

Application filed January 29, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OYRUs W. SALADEE, of

Washington, District of Columbia, have invented an Improved Side-BarRoad-Wagon, of which the following is a specification. My inventionconsists in certain improvements in road-wagons whereby I secure anelastic support for the, body and facilitate the attachment of the bodyto the platform, the connection of the springs to their supports, and ofdifferent parts of the platform to each other, as fully describedhereinafter, and shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which Figure l is a perspective view ofsufficient of a road-wagon to illustrate my improvements. Fig. 2 is adetached perspective view, showing the means for connecting the sidesprings and cross bars or braces or braces and perch; Figs. 3 and 4,modifications of Fig. 2; Fig. 5, a perspective view of the yoke; Fig. 6,a detached view of the side spring, clip, and hanger.

The drawings illustrate a double-platform wagon, although, as will beapparent hereinafter, some of the features of my invention areapplicable to wagons of a different construction.

The lower platform may consist of two or more semi-elliptic springs,parallel, convergin g,

or crossed. I have shown, however, a single central spring, B,connecting the front and rear axles in the usual manner.

The upper platform consists of a side-bar frame, composed of the sidebars, A A, (resting on end springs, E E, centrally clipped to the rearaxle and bolster,) and semi-elliptic springs B B, suspended to orotherwise supported by the side-bar frame.

The spring B may be connected to the side bars from hangers or links, asshown in my Patent No. 148,497, March 10, 1874, and may be connected atany suitable point either to the side bars or end springs, E. I prefer,however, to suspend them at one end, as at D, upon oscillating links,and at the other upon stationary links, as at D. I will here observethat if both ends of these side springs, B, were pivoted to movable oroscillating links the lower spring-platform, B, serving as aspringperch, could not be braced by the cross-stays H, or otherwise, tothe side springs, so as to retain the front axle in its requisiteupright position when in use, for the obvious reason that, as the draftof the horse pulls forward by the front axle, the side springs, byreason of their resting at both ends in oscillatinglinks, wouldhavealongitudinal motion, and through the cross-stays H carry forwardwith them the lower platform or spring-percl1,l3, and thus impart to thefront axle a rotating movement, and thereby throw a torsional strainupon the front end spring, E. Therefore, in the absence of rigidperchesusually employed in side-bar wagons, and substituting for them,asin my present invention, a lower spring platform or perch, either thefront or rear ends of both upper and lower springs, B and B, must pivotto a stationary shackle, and at the opposite ends to oscillating ones,as seen at DD and D With the axle and spring frame are combined bracesor stays A, by which the opposite shoulders of the rear axle are braceddirectly to the side bars, and which, while they retain the rear axle inits required right-angled position to the side bars, also serve tocushion the hind wheels against any solid jar, as when striking anyunyielding object in the road. For example, any shock received at therear end of the axle-brace A at 1 is transmitted directly and laterallyto the side bar at 2, and thence transferred to D and D, when it is lostor broken by the end springs, E.

Ordinarily, in this class of vehicles, wherein the combination ofsidebars,A,and end springs, E, is employed, a rigid perch or perchesareinterposed between the two axles, and the axlebraces A are extendeddirectly from the rear axle to these perches, and when the wheels ed toany part of the running-gear. I limit this application of axle-stays Ato the rear axle and side bars, A, only when the latter rest upon endsprings, E, at one or both ends, for I'am aware that side bars bolted orclipped directly to the rear axle and bolster, and provided with abrace, A, extended from the axle to the side bar, are old, and I make noclaim thereto. I secure the same advantage strike any solid object thereis no relief affordin cushionin gthehind axle and wheels, whether boththe front and rear springs, E, or only the rear spring and a bolster orfront axle, are employed.

I unite the lower and upper springs by the cross-braces H, on which Icarry the body, the same as shown in my patent of November 27, 1877, No.197,669; but in place ofsec'uring the body directly to these braces H,as in above-recited patent, I attach to them the body-blocks I, whichserve athreefold purpose: first, of giving to the body a longer bearingthan when bolted directly to the crossstays; second, of raising thelower edge of the body above the springsv to prevent the latter fromobstructing the view of that part of the body Which otherwise would behid between the springs; and, third, to regulate the hang of thebodythat is. the body may be raised or lowered at either end, accordingto the face giventhese body-blocks I, and besides, being rigidly boltedto the cross-stays H, they assist in maintaining the rigidity of thestructure.

The body thus suspended has a double spring-support: first, thatafl'orded by the spring side-bar frame, and second, that furnished bythe semielliptic spring B, re-enforced, if desired, by the spring orsprings of the lower platform, B.

The springs B B may consist of several leaves, or of a single platerolled with a central rib. a, as shown. In the latter case I use ametallic clip-seat, T, formed at the lower side to fit the rib (6, whichretains it laterally, and shaped to afford a proper bearing for one ormore of the clips K, by which the ends of the cross-bars or stays areconnected. This constitutes a strong, neat, and easily-appliedattachment.

To facilitate the connection of the end of the spring or springs of thelower platform, B, I construct the yoke S, as shown in Fig. 3,

with a lower shackle-plate, W, terminating in a shackle, as, supportingthe spring-bolt w, and perforated to receive the bolts 8 s, and theupper plate, V, also perforated to receive said bolts by which theplates are connected to the axle. Bot-h plates are perforated to receivethe king-bolt, and may be relatively adjusted by nuts R R, applied tothe bolts on opposite sides of each plate, and the upper plate, V, hasholes to receive the ends of the clips connecting the bolster.

To facilitate the suspension of the side springs, B, inside the sidebars, I extend the lower plate, I), of each clip so as to form a pivotor bolt, 0, to which the end of the spring-link is connected.

[ claim M 1. The combination of the side-bar frame, springs B B, eachsecured at one end to said frame by an immovable bolt or pivot and atthe opposite end to links suspended therefrom, and lowerspring-platform, connected to the upper side springs, substantially asset forth. 1

2. The combination of the side-bar frame, constructed as set forth, sidesprings, B, suspended thereto,lower center spring, B, crossstays H, andbody-blocks I I, supported. directly by said stays, all as and for thepurpose set forth.

3. The yoke S, consisting of the lower shackleplate, W00, head-block orbolster-plate V, and connecting bolts or clips, substantially as and forthe purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CYRUS W. SALADEE.

Witnesses G. H. WELOH, MICHAEL BATTEN.

